Growth versus Equity

This post will point to one of the pillar articles or posts that characterizes a good blog. Now I want to set the article up.

After having worked in Ghana during the sixties in religious and economic development I believed that the global structures were stacked against Africa and the Third World in general. I did international affairs at Columbia in the seventies, focusing on the monetary, trade structures and being involved at the UN headquarters in the discussions of the New International Economic Order. These discussions have great relevance now because the international economic system continues to be a system that enriches the few, impoverishes the many and endangers the planet.

The forthcoming pillar post will approach these troubling and testing times on three levels: the analytical, theoretical and strategic one. Though this article has been in the making for about a month, it was after the presidential debate of October 7 in Nashville that I want to come to some final conclusions because it will show how realistic the questions are and how realistic the answers are of the two candidates who, basically, reflect the growth versus equity quandary, dilemma or conundrum.